Article June 22, 1899 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Agnes O. Hoyt, Lusina Lord, C. D. Craik

In the introduction of Dr. A. A. Sulcer, the lecturer upon Christian Science, at the Patton Grand on Wednesday night, Judge E. W. Wells of Prescott outlined the doctrine of the Christian Scientists as follows:—

For our entertainment this evening the Christian Science Society in Phoenix has provided an interesting and entertaining lecture by one who is authorized to speak on the subject of Christian Science, the old-new Truth which is rapidly spreading throughout the United States and Canada, and finding its way to foeign shores on the east and west of us. When I say the "new Truth" I speak with reference to its re-appearance and discovery thirty years ago by Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy.

But Christian Scientists inform us that this Truth was never new; that it is without a starting-time—always is, and never ends; that no era can claim its beginning, no age define its duration, no cycle of time foretell its ending. It is quite apparent to us all that there is a creation involving the universe including man. But its theory, its method of being, its genesis is as mythical and mysterious to human sense as our notions and ideas of the identity of the Creator are varied. It is claimed for this Science that he who earnestly enters into its study. not for the purpose of criticism, opposition, or ridicule, but with the intent to know and understand its truth, will meet with results so convincing as to dispel all these mysteries and doubts; that the desire for a perfect conception of the Science of life will be gratified; that the close relationship of man to the creative Mind, of whom he is the image and likeness, will be revealed; that man himself will become conscious of his being a responsible identity of some account in the world, and that he is not the sinful and evil being so gorgeously painted in pages of prose and lines of poetic rhyme.

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